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“Sugar cane mulch”

TadsTads Posts: 210
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Please, does another kind member know where I can buy “sugar cane mulch” ?
its to sprinkle on the soil around my rose bushes - to protect them from frost during our long winter months.  My daughter from Australia is visiting, & she uses it in her “rose garden” garden in Sydney.   😊 Thankyou 😊 🤔

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    They grow Sugar cane in Northern Australia, so moving it ti DSydney is not a problem. As far as I know, Sugar cane is not grown in Europe, so mulch made from it would entail a lot of mileage, making it uneconomical. Stable manure , on the other hand, is plentiful and always good for roses.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Tads, if you're in the UK, then rose roots do not need protection from frosts, they are really tough. As Fidgetbones said, a good mulch of stable manure if you do want to put something down, is the best you can do
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Yes - fidget and Lizzie are right Tads - a good mulch of manure or similar [decent compost is also fine] is very beneficial, as with most plants, although they don't need protection as such.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I can't recommend Buffalo manure. We stopped at the farm shop on the A5 on the way back from Wales. They farm buffalos, and had put a load of very unrotted stuff around the shrubbery. It stank to high heaven. It wasn't very conducive to having a coffee and sitting in the sunshine. We bought some truckles of Snowdon cheese, and got back on the road.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I bet it's a good 'activator' for a compost heap tho @fidgetbones :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It would certainly activate something Dove!  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Last time I was at Kew, the borders outside the temperate house had been given a heavy mulch of stable manure, not very well rotted, but it didn't stink much. Maybe it was the Royal  provenance, I believe they get the output from the stables of The Horse Guards.
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